Notes from the CWA Convention – Pittsburgh 2025
Due to concerns about the dignity and safety of Canadian delegates crossing the U.S. border, a smaller than usual group of CWA Canada members attended the biennial convention [Read more...]
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PEI Newspaper Workers Win Unionization with CWA Canada
CHARLOTTETOWN (July 30, 2025) – After fighting and waiting nearly two years to belong to a union, newspaper workers in Prince Edward Island are celebrating today. [Read more...]
Game workers at Ubisoft Halifax file to unionize with CWA Canada
HALIFAX (June 18, 2025) – Workers at video game company Ubisoft in Halifax have filed to unionize with media union CWA Canada. The union filed with the Nova Scotia [Read more...]
Microsoft-BGS union files for first contract arbitration
MONTREAL (June 10, 2025) – Newly unionized video game workers at Bethesda Game Studios (BGS) in Quebec have filed for first contract arbitration in their struggle for a [Read more...]
Stand up to anti-press political bullying, says CWA Canada President Carmel Smyth
At the CMG Convention this week: CMG President Annick Forest, CWA President Claude Cummings, and CWA Canada President Carmel Smyth. [Read more...]
Gord Holder wins 2025 CWA Canada Annual Award of Excellence
Gord Holder has done what most of us dream about – spent a lifetime in a career he loves. Starting as a student in Manitoba in the 1980s, Gord carved out an enviable [Read more...]
CWA Canada National Representative Council Meets
The CWA Canada National Representative Council, the union’s governing body, held its annual meeting in Victoria this [Read more...]
CWA Canada Wins Order against BGS-Microsoft
CWA Canada, the media union organizing a group of Quebec workers who design globally popular video games, has won a legal victory over Microsoft. The Quebec Administrative [Read more...]
CAJ announces award finalists, including many CWA Canada members
Congratulations to all finalists for this year’s Canadian Association of Journalists Awards, including our members at APTN, The Canadian Press, CBC News, Kingston [Read more...]
Abandoned: the cruel fate of female journalists in Afghanistan
By Raihan Tamanna Sima, on the other end of the phone line, was crying as she told me about the lack of food for her child. She spoke of the world’s silence in [Read more...]
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